Chapter
1 I | Paris, know a certain M. Marechal—Leon Marechal?”~M. and Mme.
2 I | certain M. Marechal—Leon Marechal?”~M. and Mme. Roland both
3 I | lawyer gravely put in:~“M. Marechal is deceased.”~Both man and
4 I | what did he die of, poor Marechal?”~Maitre Lecanu did not
5 I | saying that our poor friend Marechal had left his fortune to
6 I | Then you used to know this Marechal well?”~And his father replied:~“
7 III | no doubt, that Jean was Marechal’s son. The agitation which
8 III | you to the memory of M. Marechal.”~There was a few moments’
9 III | Roland: “And who was this Marechal, after all? You must have
10 IV | blessed memory of the deceased Marechal. She was not the woman to
11 IV | first come to know this man Marechal?”~Old Roland looked up and
12 IV | child had scarlet fever, and Marechal, whom we knew then but very
13 IV | Marowsko believed that Jean was Marechal’s son. Of course he believed
14 IV | himself: “What made this Marechal leave all his fortune to
15 IV | memory the image of this Marechal, to see him, to know him,
16 IV | his mind kept repeating: “Marechal—Marechal,” as if to raise
17 IV | kept repeating: “Marechal—Marechal,” as if to raise and challenge
18 IV | Pierre” and “Monsieur Jean.” Marechal would hold out both hands,
19 IV | student’s impecuniousness, Marechal had of his own accord offered
20 IV | struggled above all to see Marechal, with light, or brown, or
21 IV | yourself in roses.” And Marechal would say: “No matter; I
22 IV | on her son’s memory.~So Marechal brought flowers; he, the
23 IV | Poetry” meant idiocy.~This Marechal then, being young, free,
24 IV | shot through his brain. Marechal was fair—fair like Jean.
25 V | of the little portrait of Marechal, which had vanished, recurred
26 V | Paris, a little portrait of Marechal, in the drawing-room.”~She
27 V | had found the portrait of Marechal. Would she be the first
28 V | portrait?”~“The portrait of Marechal.”~“No—that is to say—yes—
29 V | answered:~“A little likeness of Marechal which used to be in the
30 V | a few seconds to look at Marechal’s fair hair, and show quite
31 VIII| resigned himself to keeping Marechal’s; for if he rejected both
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